 Friendship with the Holy Spirit is a life-transforming reality that every believer should come to know. Now, I truly believe that you're going to come into a revelation that will transform everything. Friendship with the Holy Spirit will help you to pray more powerfully, love more truly, live more holy, know the Word more deeply, evangelize more boldly, and live more godly. So, how do you cultivate this friendship? Let's go to the Word now, but first, I want you to comment in the comment section, I love the Holy Spirit. Second, currently in 1314, is a simple verse, but this verse transformed the way I looked at the Holy Spirit. May the grace of the Lord Jesus Christ and the love of God and the fellowship of the Holy Spirit be with you all. Such a simple truth, yet it's so life-transforming. Such a simple reality, yet the implications are profound. The Holy Spirit wants to fellowship with you. The Holy Spirit wants a friendship with you. I would dare say, I would be so bold as to say that the Holy Spirit wants a friendship with you more than you want a friendship with Him. The Holy Spirit is more committed to a friendship with you than you are committed to a friendship with Him. What do I mean when I talk about the friendship of the Holy Spirit? I'm talking about the acknowledgement of His nearness. I'm talking about companionship. I'm talking about the person of the Holy Spirit walking with you through your everyday life. He can be there when you wake up and be the first thought on your mind. He can fellowship with you as you're drifting off into sleep. So when you begin the day and when you end the day, the Holy Spirit is there and all throughout the day, the Holy Spirit abides as a faithful friend. He'll be with you in moments of sorrow when you feel that your heart just can't take the tragedy that you're facing. He'll be with you in moments of victory and triumph, helping you to celebrate that which you are experiencing at that moment in your life. He'll be with you to help you be a good husband or a good wife, a good parent, a good worker, a good student, a good Christian, a good friend. The Holy Spirit is there empowering us unto both the supernatural and the practical. By that, I mean that he of course will cause his power to flow through you so that you can see healing miracles, deliverance, salvation and many different manifestations of his power. But he'll also be there empowering you to do the practical, everyday things that Christians ought to do in their everyday life. The Holy Spirit will cause you to be more like Jesus. The Holy Spirit will take the Word of God, ignite the Word and cause it to not just be information but revelation that changes you at the very core of who you are. When you feel you've made a mistake when you know you've messed up the Holy Spirit abides even then as a faithful friend whispering to you get back up and try again. I've not abandoned you. I've not left you. I've not rejected you. I will abide to help you get this right. And so in every moment of every day you have the person of the Holy Spirit strengthening you giving you grace giving you faith giving you boldness giving you godly desires helping you to overcome temptation helping you to avoid deception helping you to resist demonic power helping you to discern what's in the heart of others around you. That's what the precious Holy Spirit does for you. And as you begin to cultivate that friendship as you begin to strengthen that which you receive of him then you begin to experience the transformation that comes only from walking with the Holy Spirit in this way. Let's go to first Corinthians real briefly here. And I want to show you something in verse 10. Let's begin at verse 10 first Corinthians chapter 2 verse 10. These are the things God has revealed to us by his spirit. The Spirit searches all things even the deep things of God for who knows a person's thoughts except their own spirit within them. In the same way no one knows the thoughts of God except the spirit of God. So much in the same way that no one really knows what goes on within you other than you and of course the Lord. In that same way no one can truly understand the deep things of God like the Holy Spirit can and the scripture tells us here that he searches out he searches the deep things of God. In verse 11 actually let's go to verse 12. What we have received is not the spirit of the world but the spirit who is from God so that we may understand what God has freely given us. This is what we speak not in words taught us by human wisdom but in words taught by the spirit explaining spiritual realities which spirit taught words. The person without the spirit does not accept the things that come from the spirit of God but considers them foolishness and cannot understand them because they are discerned only through the spirit. So this is number one you want to cultivate a friendship with the Holy Spirit. Number one you have to understand that you have to embrace the Holy Spirit. When the Holy Spirit begins to move sometimes the move of the Holy Spirit will be disruptive never disorder but sometimes disruption. Now what do I mean by that? I don't mean destructive because everything that the Holy Spirit does is ultimately unto a spiritual purpose but sometimes the Holy Spirit is going to do things in you through you went around you that change your plans that cause you to scratch your head and wonder what exactly he's doing that cause others by the way to mock you to ridicule you to look at you and say how can you allow the Holy Spirit to do that? Think about the fact that when Jesus cast the legion of demons out of that man and cause those demonic powers to go into a bunch of pigs and cause them to walk over into the water that the townspeople were upset by this and they told Jesus go away in other words what Jesus had done caused them fear. It inconvenienced them it disrupted their lives. So when I talk about the disruption of the Holy Spirit I don't mean to say that he's destructive I mean to say that sometimes the Holy Spirit is going to do something that contradicts the way that you think his thoughts aren't our thoughts his ways are higher than our ways his thoughts are higher than our thoughts and so sometimes God would do things through the Holy Spirit in a way that cause you to have to give up your preconceived ideas that cause you to have to give up your plans that cause you to have to disrupt your will and instead embrace his this is the work of the Holy Spirit and we have to embrace him. Now the Holy Spirit is not just for Pentecostals the Holy Spirit is not just for Charismatics the Holy Spirit is not just for those who believe that the gifts are for today and I of course believe that the gifts are for today and as you continue to walk with the Holy Spirit it is inevitable that you'll eventually be confronted by that reality but the Holy Spirit is for all believers the Holy Spirit is for everyone who was born again for the Holy Spirit dwells in you the very moment you are born again and so because he is for all believers we ought not to be ashamed of his work sometimes the power of the Holy Spirit will offend your intellect sometimes the working of his miracles will cause you to wonder sometimes the Holy Spirit will do things in certain ways that cause you to try to explain it away we ought not to do this as friends of the Holy Spirit friends of the Holy Spirit are more concerned about embracing the Holy Spirit than they are about being ridiculed by others others will ridicule and say I don't see the purpose in this others will ridicule and even suggest that something that the Holy Spirit is doing is disorderly we know that God is a God of order we know that the Holy Spirit gives us self-control but that doesn't mean that people don't react to the power of the Holy Spirit in fact I don't even know how that connection is made and so sometimes in order to try to explain away the working of the Holy Spirit people come up with clever sounding seemingly biblically based ideas that ultimately serve their ego when what we ought to do as friends of the Holy Spirit is say Holy Spirit whatever you want for me I want whatever you desire to do with me I desire Holy Spirit however you want to move I want to welcome that move whatever it is that you want to do whenever it is that you want to do it however it is that you want to do it precious Holy Spirit I say welcome come and do as only you can do so if you want to walk with the Holy Spirit as a friend of the Holy Spirit where you're walking in that communion with Him in that fellowship with Him you have to commit yourself to embracing Him despite the criticism embracing Him despite the ridicule embracing Him even despite the reservations and hesitations that might be in your own mind and in your own emotions don't allow others' mistakes to cause you to reject the work of the Holy Spirit do sometimes Christians even abuse the power of the Holy Spirit yes do sometimes believers react to the power of the Holy Spirit in a way that's not genuine but of the flesh absolutely but this doesn't mean that we reject His work because of the way that others have expressed it instead we say to the Holy Spirit Holy Spirit I want you to pour out that anointing on my life and I want every last drop I don't want to miss a thing I want to receive all for which Christ died to give to me so if we want to experience this friendship of the Holy Spirit look every believer has the Holy Spirit but if you want to receive of that which has been deposited in you you want to experience the effects of that connection that you already have then you're gonna have to learn to embrace Him so that's number one embrace the Holy Spirit number two is reverence Him Ephesians 4 30 says and do not bring sorrow to God's Holy Spirit by the way you live remember He has identified you as His own guaranteeing that you will be saved on the day of redemption so first and foremost when you have the Holy Spirit within you that is the seal of the Father He has guaranteed that you will be redeemed that you will be saved on the day of redemption so when we make sinful mistakes as born-again believers the Holy Spirit doesn't leave He grieves and of course by this I don't mean to imply that we have a license to sin the grace of God is not a license to sin the grace of God is the empowering presence the indwelling empowering presence of the Holy Spirit helping us to resist those sinful cravings He empowers us unto holiness and so when we as believers begin to embrace the Holy Spirit in this way where we are now reverencing Him and acknowledging that our wrongdoing hurts Him and acknowledging that our sinful ways breaks His heart then we begin to become friends of the Holy Spirit why? because we're no longer living necessarily out of the fear of punishment though we understand that sin has consequences even for the believer but rather we're living out of the fear of breaking His heart we're not motivated by legalism we're motivated by love we're not motivated by punishment we're motivated by love we're motivated by the fact that we know that when we disobey we grieve the person of the Holy Spirit within us we break His heart and you can sense that grieving if you're a born-again believer and you are persisting in rebellion in fact I would dare say that the most miserable person on earth is the Christian who is living in persistent rebellious compromise why? because the Holy Spirit within them grieves because they can sense that intense conviction of the Holy Spirit because they can sense His heart breaking so again we're motivated by our love for Him I don't want to break His heart I know He's not going to reject me I know He's going to accept me I know He's not going to abandon me I know He's going to abide as a faithful friend so everything in me in response to that love says I want to be a living sacrifice because I know you are faithful because I know you have saved me because I know you have sealed me and it is from that motivation of love that we walk in holiness and by the way it's from that motivation of love that we serve in the ministry when you're motivated by a love for the person of the Holy Spirit by a love for Jesus really that motivation gives you a fire that never never burns out that fire will continue to burn why because it's a heavenly fire if you are exhausted if you are drained if you are constantly filling that weight upon you it could be I'm not going to say it's always the case but it could be that you're giving from the wrong source that you're giving from self that you're giving from your own energy that you're giving from your own intellect and we ought to use those things in conjunction with the power of the Holy Spirit but when you're giving just from self you burn out when you're giving just from your own strength you find it difficult to be faithful to persist to continue in doing that which you ought to do but when you give out of fellowship with the Holy Spirit when you give from that friendship with the precious Holy Spirit there is this fire that burns in your heart that never dies there is a fire that never goes out there is a fire that cannot be quenched it is that fire of love for Jesus it is that fire of the Holy Spirit Romans 5 5 says the love of God is shut abroad in our hearts by the Holy Ghost and so the Holy Spirit causes that fire to burn so that you're not just trying to make it through the day so that you're not just barely hanging on so that you're not on your last ounce of strength serving begrudgingly with reservation looking for a way out but instead you're serving wholeheartedly you're living holy with joy you're serving in the ministry with joy and with peace and with the divine energetic vitality that causes you to move swiftly and there's favor on it why because you're referencing the Holy Spirit in your life because you're living out of that awareness that I could hurt him not in the sense that I can bring destruction to him but I can hurt him in the same way that you would break someone's heart don't grieve him don't grieve the precious Holy Spirit you know people often talk to me about demonic power and while I acknowledge that demonic power is certainly real and that the Bible tells us that we ought to be aware of the spiritual battle in which we are engaged and while the Scripture gives us clear instructions on how to avoid deception and temptation and demonic attacks I can say with boldness I do not fear demonic power far too much preaching today magnifies the power of the enemy while minimizing the power of the Holy Spirit let me just say it to you bluntly those who teach that the demonic power is stronger than the power of the Holy Spirit or teach messages that even imply that do not understand the power of the Holy Ghost and they insult the Holy Spirit by their constant obsession with demonic power now I'm not saying we don't talk about it I'm not saying we shouldn't teach on it and I think in fact we need more teaching on spiritual warfare but it's about perspective and when you have nothing but perspective on how great the demonic power is then you're lost then your life is a mess why? because you're minimizing the power of the Holy Spirit while maximizing demonic power and we ought not to do it it insults the power of the Holy Ghost and so I don't fear demonic beings I don't fear their attacks why? because the Scripture tells us plainly submit to God resist the devil and he will flee surrender to the Holy Spirit assures victory against the enemy so I'm not afraid of demonic power I understand we're engaged in battle I don't remain ignorant of the devil's devices I don't just pretend like there isn't a spiritual war we ought to be wise in terms of spiritual warfare but I don't fear demonic power now there is a part of me that I know the enemy can attack sometimes and he can bring deception but so long as I'm walking with the Holy Spirit he can do nothing and I don't fear man I know that when I first began in ministry there was this constant obsession with the criticisms of others if somebody said something to me on social media or left a comment there could be a hundred positive comments but I would look at that one negative comment it would get stuck in my head and I would rehearse what they said and then I would try to think of all these different comebacks that would maybe be able to silence them and I would try to figure out ways to explain myself to others who were committed to misunderstanding me I was constantly obsessed with phrasing things in such a way that it wouldn't get me in trouble now I understand there's wisdom there in some degree in some sense I should say but I don't fear man what can man do to me? you can't cancel who God has called let me say that again for those of you who live with that fear you can't cancel who God has called people will come against you people will make their videos people will give their speeches people will do their warnings and their live streams and on and on and on and on but you cannot cancel whom God has called it doesn't have the effect they want it to have in fact it's the reverse God turns that which was meant to harm you for your good and so there is no fear of man now this doesn't mean that we don't care about reputation scripture tells us that's important to some degree we ought to be good representatives of the kingdom of God and we mustn't be rude or mean or nasty we mustn't try to make enemies and we mustn't try to offend but if we offend by telling the truth so be it so no there is no fear of man I'll tell you what I fear I do not fear demonic power I do not fear man I fear grieving the precious Holy Spirit I fear grieving him and so we must carry that healthy reverence that acknowledgement that he indeed is a personal being when I say he's a person I don't mean he's human I mean that he's personal and that he has a mind he has a will he has emotions he makes decisions he's distinct from the father and son but still one God with them and so we ought to have this reverence toward him where we obey him when he speaks we move when he instructs we obey when he tells us something we don't spend days and weeks and years bargaining with him negotiating with him trying to get him to do it our way no instead we say Holy Spirit I yield my life to what you have spoken and I want to do that which pleases you obedience to the voice of the Holy Spirit do you know what sensitivity is sensitivity isn't just hearing the Holy Spirit many people brag about being able to hear the Holy Spirit but often do not obey what he has spoken sensitivity to the Holy Spirit is reactiveness in other words he speaks I move delay sometimes can be disobedience unless he told you to delay and so we react to the voice of the Holy Spirit we are sensitive when he speaks you realize that your body is the temple of the Holy Spirit what are you doing with the Holy Spirit's hands what are you looking at with the Holy Spirit's eyes what are you listening to with the Holy Spirit's ears where are you going with the Holy Spirit's feet what are you allowing the temple of the Holy Spirit to participate in reverence him obey him and you can sense that joy over him or his joy over you I should say when you begin to walk in this kind of obedience and I'm not talking about perfection there will be mistakes but I'm talking about a mindset I'm talking about a goal I'm talking about a lifestyle not a perfection but of being surrendered to being perfected so we understand him we embrace him we're not ashamed of his work we don't try to force the move of the Holy Spirit to back rooms and special meetings only but we embrace the move of the Holy Spirit we reverence him in that we obey his voice and number three we trust him this is to depend upon him let me read you something from Romans chapter 8 verse 11 and if the spirit of him who raised Jesus from the dead is living in you he who raised Christ from the dead will also give life to your mortal bodies because of his spirit who lives in you so here the scripture is telling us that the Holy Spirit's power raised Jesus from the dead think about the fact that the Father the Son and the Holy Spirit walk together in perfect unity trinity try unity three persons one God and they so walk in unity that they entrust certain tasks to one another think about the fact that when Jesus allowed himself to experience death by the way Jesus was God is God always will be God there was never a moment walking upon even when he was walking upon the earth there was never a moment that Jesus wasn't God he was always God even in his physical form and so in fact I've said before that that the Holy Spirit is Jesus without limitation by that I'm referring to the boundaries of the physical body that he allowed himself to experience where he would travel because in his physical form he couldn't be everywhere at all times and so when the Holy Spirit came upon the church there was no longer those physical boundaries that Jesus allowed himself to experience well here upon the earth but think about the fact that the Son of God allowed himself to experience death and he did a trust fall backwards into the grave so to speak and trusted that the Holy Spirit would catch him now that is trust that is dependence here we see that we must too rely upon the Holy Spirit the same Spirit who raised Jesus from the dead dwells in you if the Holy Spirit could bring the power for resurrection then the Holy Spirit can bring the power for any situation in your life even if by the way that situation doesn't work out the way you want it to work we need the Holy Spirit in our lives we need the Holy Spirit in our ministries we need the Holy Spirit in our businesses we need the Holy Spirit in our families we need the Holy Spirit in our marriages we need the Holy Spirit in our relationships we need the Holy Spirit in our disciplines and in our hobbies and in our goals we have to learn to rely upon the precious Holy Spirit. Why? Because that power has been deposited in you, it's been gifted to you, the promise of the Father, and many believers go their entire lives never once tapping into that power. So much that we do is built upon self-reliance and we don't even know it. Now, we would never say, right? Like, I know you as a born-again believer, you would never say nor would you ever desire to do something in your own strength. No believer ever says, I wanna do this without the Holy Spirit. No believer ever says, I can do this in my own strength. They don't consciously think that. But sometimes, and let me just challenge you here, sometimes our actions actually speak independence from the Holy Spirit. When you go a day without prayer and the word, you're saying to the Holy Spirit, I don't need your help today. When you go a week without prayer, you're saying, I could handle this week all on my own. When you live a lifestyle without prayer, without involving the guidance of the Holy Spirit, you're saying to the Holy Spirit, I can live in my own strength, I don't need you. There are good things that we can implement for ministries. Structures are good, programs are good, excellence is good. I hear so often people criticizing large ministries saying, well, everything they do is so organized. And I'm thinking, what do you want it to be, chaotic? Well, I love the power of God. So I'm not really into organized religion. I think, what are you into? Disorganized religion, chaotic religion, unplanned? No, everything that God does has structure. Everything that the Holy Spirit does has order. Even if it's not the order that we desire, like sometimes the way the Holy Spirit moves in meetings, others might look at it and say, that's disorder. No, it's just contrary to what you think is order, but the Holy Spirit is moving in the order that he wants. And so we have to begin to realize that the Holy Spirit doesn't fit in our neat little box. He can use the street preacher and he can use the pastor of a large church. He can use the Sunday morning preacher and he can use the YouTube minister. The Holy Spirit can use the old and he can use the young. He can use the well-spoken and he can use those who are not so well-spoken. The Holy Spirit isn't limited by what we think limits him. And so we have to learn that we can trust him. And again, I'm all for programs. I'm all for structure. I'm all for doing things with excellence, but here's why I wanna challenge you again. The structure in the programs alone cannot amount to a move of the Holy Spirit. And again, I wanna be careful with the way I say this because I don't wanna give you a misunderstanding so that you criticize great ministries. Because sometimes we do that, don't we? It's like the Christian version of virtue signaling, where we say things like, well, that's a large ministry. So it must be, of course, watered down, or that's a very organized ministry. So it must be man-made, or that's very polished and excellent. So surely that's man's ability and not the Holy Spirit's ability. That is such a twisted, warped way of seeing the power of the Holy Spirit because now you're limiting him. The Holy Spirit can use anything, anyone, any style and he moves with order. And so when we recognize that he moves with order, we also have to realize that there is this dependency upon him that sometimes we move away from because we are solely relying upon programs. Nothing wrong with programs. Nothing wrong with structure. Nothing wrong with excellence. Nothing wrong with a polished look and feel of a ministry. Nothing wrong with that. But when you begin to rely upon that alone, now you're moving in the flesh. Now you're moving in your own strength and here's what is frightening or I should say here's what's concerning to me. Many of us are so reliant upon programs and structures that if the Holy Spirit were to remove his influence, we wouldn't even notice that he removed his influence. So much of what we build is built upon man so that were the Holy Spirit to remove himself from the situation, we would just go on like normal all the while not recognizing that the Holy Spirit's not in it. So yes, have your structure. Yes, do things with excellence. Yes, it's okay to implement programs. That's what God calls us to do, all things decently and in order. But well, you are implementing that which you can implement. Remember to involve the Holy Spirit to do what only he can do. You do the practical and the possible, the Holy Spirit will do the miraculous and the impossible. We're broken without him. How do you depend on him? You pray, you consult him, you ask for his guidance, you take moments to pause and to ask him what he wants to do in a moment. Acknowledge that. So number one, you wanna befriend the Holy Spirit, embrace him, even if it brings criticism your way. Number two, reverence him, that is obey him, listen to his voice. Number three, trust him. You can depend upon him to do the work. Listen, the Holy Spirit is the greatest church planter, the greatest church growth expert, the greatest ministry structure expert of all time. Everything that has been built up until now in the church that is of God has been built by the Holy Spirit. He knows what he's doing. You can trust him. Now, number four is communication. You have to be aware of that presence. Now, again, I wanna stress this point, especially for new believers, because I wanna make sure you understand that I am not saying that you don't have the Holy Spirit if you don't do these things or that this is how you get the Holy Spirit. You receive the Holy Spirit the very moment you were born again. I'm talking about how to receive of that connection that has already been established or how to walk in surrender and obedience to where now you're actually communicating with the Holy Spirit and more aware of him and his nearness in every single moment. Psalm 139, I'm gonna read verses seven and onward. Where can I go from your spirit? Where can I flee from your presence? If I go up to the heavens, you are there. If I make my bed in the depths, you are there. If I rise on the wings of the dawn, if I settle on the far side of the sea, even there your hand will guide me, your right hand will hold me fast. So again, we see where can I escape from your spirit? He is everywhere at all times. The Holy Spirit is, as I would say, the everywhereness of God. He is present in every moment. And this is what's so precious about the Holy Spirit. There is no moment that is so large that the Holy Spirit cannot be involved. And there's no moment so small that the Holy Spirit will not be involved. He is present for big moments and little moments. Listen to me. I'm talking to you. He's there when they diagnose the cancer. And he's there when the cancer is healed. He's there when you get accepted into that college or that university. So to celebrate with you. But he's also there when you're struggling in your studies, you don't feel that you have what it takes and you feel the pressure of expectations and you don't know what to do. He's there for every moment, good and bad. You're struggling to raise those kids, he's there. There's tension in your marriage, he's there. There's an issue in your finances, he's there. And again, these situations don't always end the way we want them to end. We don't always get the results that we want to experience, but he's there. He'll never abandon you, he'll never leave you, he'll never forsake you. He was there when you were born again. He was there when you received the gift of tongues. He was there when you felt like going to church. He's even there when you don't feel like going to church. He's there when you're enthusiastic and you're ready to open the scripture and he's still there when you lay the scripture aside and he's prompting you, calling you, giving you a royal invitation to come and be with him. He's there when you feel like praying and he's there when you don't feel like praying. He's there when you're on the mountain top and he's there when you're in the valley. He's there when you feel like shouting praise and worship and he's there when your soul is crushed and you can't even let out a whisper. He's there when you make a decision to resist temptation, affirming that decision, rejoicing over that decision. But he's also there when you made that mistake and you think you've gone too far and you think you've messed up one too many times this time and you don't even have the boldness to look at God. You don't wanna pray, you don't wanna read because of the shame that you feel and you're beating yourself up saying, I did it again, even after I said I never would. He's there in your accomplishments. He's there in your failures. He's there when a work is beginning and he's there when a season is coming to an end. He's there when you feel like friends abound. He's also there when you feel lonely and rejected and despised and misunderstood. He's there when you take a step of faith and he applauds that decision. But he's also there when you rather chose fear and he gives you grace and mercy and he says, let's do this again. He's there when you step out and use the gift as he told you to use it. And he's there when you didn't step out and use the gift. You kept your mouth shut or you didn't witness or you didn't do what you knew you should do and he comforts you and says, there's no condemnation, let's get this right. And he helps you move forward not to give you a license in wrongdoing and disobedience but to help you get it right. He's there when you feel qualified. He's there when you feel disqualified. He's there when you feel sure of yourself and he's there when you feel insecure. He's there on the wedding day and he's there even if they left you and they served you the divorce papers. The Holy Spirit is your ever-present help in time of need. He brings comfort to the broken hearted, strength to those who need boldness, understanding to those who cry out for wisdom, power to those who need a miracle. He's there even now. He's there when you believe, he's there, he's there when you feel like he's a million miles away. He's there when you feel his power manifested on your physical body and he's there even when you feel numb, no emotion, nothing whatsoever. Thank you precious Holy Spirit for being there. A true friend and he prays for you Romans 8.26 says, he prays for you according to the will of God, the one who knows you like no one else can know you. Praise for you like no one else can pray for you. He understands your weaknesses, he understands your strengths and he can pray accordingly. He's not giving up on you. He's not left you alone. Even when you gave up on him, the scripture declares, he's faithful even when we are not for he cannot deny who he is. You may have said, I wish I had a friend, a true friend like that you do. And when you walk in that awareness with him, that communication with him, knowing that he's available in every moment, that changes everything. You can talk to him while you're driving to school or to work. You can talk to him within your heart, retreat to that inner place when you're amongst friends and family. You can acknowledge him while you're playing with your children or on a date with your spouse. He's there, ever present, full of mercy and love, giving peace, love and joy. He is your comforter. He is your friend. And he's not abandoning you. So Father, I pray you make them aware of that reality now. We thank you, Holy Spirit. Listen to me. He's in the room with you right now. He's looking at you right now. He's listening to you right now. Thank you, precious Holy Spirit, such a faithful friend. We love you, we honor you, we bless you. Help us to cultivate that friendship with you. And precious Holy Spirit, let that healing and delivering power begin to flow. Even now, in the mighty name of Jesus, we pray. I want you to say it because you believe it right. Thank you, Holy Spirit. Write that in the comments section right now. You think someone can be encouraged by this message? Make sure to leave a like on the video. You never know who's going to hear the word simply because you left a like. And don't forget to subscribe. Let's stay connected so that you can continue to receive my teachings on the Holy Spirit. Just subscribe now and make sure you click that notification bell when you do. Now, I want to challenge you with something here. I know this is usually the part of the video or the stream where people start to click off. Word was received and I'm glad you received it. The prayer was received and I'm glad you received it. But hear this now. I want to read a portion of scripture to you. And then I want you to ask the Holy Spirit to speak to you. I talked about sensitivity to the voice of the Holy Spirit. I want you to see if he won't speak to you right now as I read this portion of scripture. This is 1 Corinthians chapter nine. I'm going to read verses six and onward. Remember this, whoever sows sparingly will also reap sparingly. And whoever sows generously will also reap generously. Now, Paul the apostle here is talking about financial support for the work of ministry. He's talking about giving. And he likens these monetary gifts to sowing seed. This is where the doctrine of seed sowing comes from. So it is biblical. And while we understand that this doctrine has been abused in times past and even today is still abused, we can't abandon truth just because sometimes that truth is warped. The truth is that when we give, we're demonstrating faith. When we give, we're demonstrating love. Where your treasure is, there will your heart be also. When we give, we are sowing into the kingdom like a seed in the ground. Now, here's what the Bible says in verse seven. Each of you should give what you have decided in your heart to give. This is key here, not reluctantly or under compulsion. So this is where we as preachers have to bear the responsibility of presenting the needs of the ministry in a gracious way. We as preachers ought not to pressure God's people. Preachers don't use guilt, don't use gimmicks and don't use greed to motivate the people of God. So each of you should give what you've decided to give in your heart. Not reluctantly or under compulsion or under pressure. For God loves a cheerful giver. Now watch this in verse eight. Look at what begins to result as you become a giver. And God is able to bless you abundantly so that in all things at all times, having all that you need, you will abound in every good work. In other words, you will always have everything you need. Now that's a wonderful promise of scripture. You will always have everything you need. Maybe not always everything you want. And I think that sometimes we confuse needs for wants and wants for needs. But God is able to give you everything you need all the time. As it is written, verse nine, they have freely scattered their gifts to the poor. Their righteousness endures forever. Now, he who supplies seed to the sower, in other words, God gave you what you have. The resources you have, God gave to you. He gave you the seed. Now he who supplies seed to the sower and bread for food will also supply and increase your store of seed and will enlarge the harvest of your righteousness. So he increases your resources. He doesn't just supply what you have. He increases your resources based upon how you steward those resources. Now watch this in verse 11. You will be enriched in every way. And I'm reading this straight out of scripture. You will be enriched in every way. Now is that just for me to consume for myself? No, it tells us why. Paul writes very clearly why he enriches us. You will be enriched in every way so that you can be generous on every occasion. In other words, a harvest of generosity is produced in you. And through us, your generosity will result in thanksgiving to God. This service that you perform is not only supplying the needs of the Lord's people, but is also overflowing in many expressions of thanks to God. And having read that, I wanna challenge you now to step out in faith. Ask the Holy Spirit what you want to give and don't give out of compulsion. Don't give under pressure. Just obey what he's speaking. Go right now to davidhernandezministries.com slash partner. Just open the website. Open the page, davidhernandezministries.com slash partner. Don't say someone else, some other time. I'm addressing you right now. And I want you to open that page and I want you to ask the Holy Spirit, Holy Spirit, what would you like me to do? Now you can partner for any amount as the Holy Spirit leads you. And we're asking you to do that not so that we can consume it, but so that we can use it effectively, efficiently for the sake of the advancement of the kingdom. The gospel is free. The means to deliver it on a mass scale, that can take some resources. Now I know that there's a lot of talk of what's happening in the world concerning the economy and concerning currency and concerning the future. Listen, choose faith over fear and watch how God will increase you according to his will, not according to our will and desire, but according to his will. You can also give a single gift by going to davidhernanisministries.com slash donate. Your gift of any amount will help to support the work of the ministry. We accept gifts from all different regions, all different countries in all different currencies, even cryptocurrency. So try the website first and if the website doesn't work, then you can give on YouTube or on Facebook. One more time, davidhernanisministries.com slash partner to sign up for our automatic monthly giving plan or davidhernanisministries.com slash donate to give a single gift. Whatever you do, we appreciate your support. Thank you for helping me take the gospel all around the world. I love you, I appreciate you, I pray for you. And until next time, remember, nothing is impossible with God.